Hindi Pronunciation
Hindi uses Devanagari and contrasts dental and retroflex consonants, along with aspirated and unaspirated stops.
Sounds worth practising
- retroflex consonants (ट,ठ,ड,ढ,ण)
- aspirated stops (bh, dh, gh, jh)
- dental vs retroflex distinction
- the retroflex flap /ɽ/
- nasalized vowels
The aspirated/unaspirated distinction doubles the stop consonant inventory. "pa" [pa] vs "pha" [pʰa] are completely distinct phonemes. For English speakers who only have one version of each stop, this requires entirely new muscle memory.